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This website is the exclusive property of the Monaco Exploration Society.
The users of the ‘Monaco Explorations’ website acknowledge having the skills and means necessary to access and use this website. They also acknowledge having checked that the computer configuration used contains no viruses and that it is in perfect operating condition.
Finally, the users also acknowledge having read this legal notice, the section about privacy, the terms and conditions of use and the credits and undertake to comply with them unconditionally.
The Monaco Exploration Society reserves the right to modify the present terms and conditions of use at any time and without prior notice.

Contact details and identification of the Publisher
Monaco Exploration Society
Monegasque public limited company
R.C.I. 18 S 07953
VAT No.: FR84 000 140 383

The copyright regulations to be applied to the texts published on the website www.monacoexplorations.org are those in accordance with the Creative Commons Licence – No Commercial Use – No Modification.
Unless there is a restrictive notice and for strictly non-commercial use, the texts on this website can be freely reproduced as long as the authors are quoted and the content is not altered in any way. In any other case, it is necessary to contact the authors who hold the rights, namely the right to publish their work in another context, commercial or otherwise.
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All rights reserved, in Monaco and the rest of the world.
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Mr. Robert Calcagno, Chief Executive Officer of the Monaco Exploration Society
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Access to the website

With the exception of the connection cost, access to this website’s content is free of charge and with no prior registration or subscription. The Monaco Exploration Society reserves the right to modify, temporarily or permanently interrupt a part of or the whole of this website at any time, without prior notice to the users. No liability is incurred by the Monaco Exploration Society in this regard.

Use of the website and its content

The users undertake not to commit on this website unlawful acts or acts that violate human rights and third-party interests. The present terms and conditions of use prohibit any acts that may tarnish the name and/or image of the Monaco Exploration Society, or which may damage, overload, incapacitate, discredit or defeat the website. Are prohibited, in particular: transmission by e-mail or by any other means of any content serving for persecution, harassment, defamation, discrimination, insult or any other dissemination of personal information or opinion relating to one or several individuals or detrimental to human rights or underage users. All correspondence must remain courteous under all circumstances and must respect basic rules of politeness. The contents of this website are translated on an indicative basis. In case of divergence, the French text shall prevail.

Copyright

All content (text, comments, titles, photographs, sound, images, data, drawings, animated audio sequences, videos, etc.) reproduced on this website, as well as design, form and software are the property of the Monaco Exploration Society (unless otherwise indicated) and are protected by the current legislation on copyright and, more generally, intangible rights. Any reproduction, representation, dissemination or total or partial redissemination on any medium whatsoever, is strictly forbidden, without prior written authorisation from the Monaco Exploration Society, except for a strictly personal, private and non-commercial use, with no modification of the elements present on the website and no removal of the notices relating to copyright or intellectual property rights.

Brands

The brands and/or logos of the Monaco Exploration Society appearing on this website are trademarks protected by intellectual property legislation. Any reproduction, in whole or in part, without the rightholder’s authorisation is an offence sanctioned by the Monegasque courts and tribunals.

CREDITS, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND COPYRIGHTS

The website www.monacoexplorations.org is protected by the terms of the Intellectual Property Law, namely by the terms relating to the literary and artistic property, copyright and database protection.

These rights are the exclusive property of the Monaco Exploration Society.

The copyrights and other property rights for the content (including but not limited to, software, audio and vido content, texts and photographs) are the exclusive property of the Monaco Exploration Society or its licensees. All rights associated with content which are not expressly granted are reserved. Unless otherwise specified, the content published on the present website can be reproduced or distributed in a non-modified form, exclusively for private use. Any other use of the content, including but not limited to, any distribution, reproduction modification, translation, broadcast or transmission without prior written consent from the Monaco Exploration Society, is strictly forbidden.

All the brands, procedures and techniques present on the website of the Monaco Exploration Society are protected by specific laws, and can in no case be copied or used. Any copyright or other symbol of property must be included in all reproductions.

All the texts, commentaries, works, illustrations and images featured on the website of the Monaco Exploration Society are controlled by copyright and intellectual property rights, applicable throughout the world.

The intellectual property law only authorises, on the one hand, copies or reproductions strictly for personal use of the person copying them and not intended for collective use, and on the other hand, analyses and short quotations for the purposes of example and illustration.

Consequently, any other use of the Content, including but not limited to, any distribution, reproduction, representation, modification, translation, broadcast or transmission without prior written consent from the Monaco Exploration Society is strictly forbidden under penalty of legal proceedings.
The offender incurs civil and legal proceedings, in particular the sentences set out under the intellectual property law.

Photography credits for the ‘Monaco Explorations’ website:
See special notes
• © O. Borde – Monaco Explorations
• © F. Buyle – Monaco Explorations
• © R. Brooks – Monaco Explorations
• © D. Théron – Monaco Explorations
• © M. Boussion – Monaco Explorations
• © F. Lefèbvre
• © CSM
• © J. Chias – Gombessa 5
• © D. Chevallier – CNRS IPHC
• © L. Vigliola – IRD
• © M. Dagnino –  Monaco Oceanographic Institute
• © Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
• © L. Factor – Monaco Explorations
• © T. Apparu – Monaco Explorations
• © F. Schnoller – Monaco Explorations

• © Princely Palace Archives

• © Oceanographic Museum of Monaco Collection

• © A. Fuchs – Monaco Explorations

• © Sylvain Péroumal – Monaco Explorations

• © Jago team_POS525                 

Video credits for the ‘Monaco Explorations’ website
• © T. Apparu – Monaco Explorations
• © D. Théron – Monaco Explorations
• © F. Schnoller – Monaco Explorations
• © R. Brooks – Monaco Explorations
• © M. Boussion – Monaco Explorations
• © F. Pacorel – Monaco Oceanographic Institute

• © Ariel Fuchs – Monaco Explorations

• © Sylvain Péroumal – Monaco Explorations

• © Jago team_POS525

Illustration credits for the ‘Monaco Explorations’ website
• © D. Mason – Illustration
• © C. Schmitt – Monaco Explorations
• © M. Wurtz – Monaco Oceanographic Institute